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... C Ship Batavia when it struck a reef west of an unknown continent, I was one of the 315 people aboard when we first hit, and was one of only 150 odd survivors. ... Francesco Pelsaert and a lot of the senior crew landed on an island not far from us, but they obviously realised we were in grave danger and took the two boats, stocked with fresh food and water and headed for Batavia. ... Jeronimus Cornelius, being the highest ranked person left on the island, sent Wiebbe Hayes and 24 soldiers, including myself, to a nearby island in search of food and water. ... Someone who left Cornelius’ ‘gang’ informed us that he had been planning to mutineer the ship Batavia even before it had become shipwrecked, and flee to the Indies with the vast amount of jewellery and expensive items on the ship. The man told us that he believed the mutineers were planning to kill everyone on the island, and either kill the rescuers if they ever came or make a boat out of the wreckage of the Batavia. ...
Over the next two days came two attacks, the first came as a peace offering, but as the negotiators got closer two of them produced muskets and attempted to shoot us, but the guns didn’t fire. ... The trials were swift but extensive, and most of the murderers were hanged on the island, two were marooned on a landmass east of out island, while the rest were taken back to Batavia to be punished there.
Approximate Word count = 1248
Approximate Pages = 5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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